Over S$200 for a jump but I'll probably try. Pretty sure I can do it, but no guarantees. I don't think even closing my eyes will work but who cares? If I'm ever going to try skydiving, this is probably like a warm-up anyway.
Cancelled my pledge for the Peachy Printer. Just can't justify paying money for something that useless.
So my cheapo jacket has arrived!
Turns out it's a blazer, but it's just semantics as far as I'm concerned given that I'm only going to wear this for a wedding.
Still, it was interesting to know the differences between a blazer, a sportcoat and a suit jacket.
For those who don't want to watch this video, this clothier explains that their identifying features are as such:
Blazer:
- solid colour
- no pattern
- metal buttons
Sportcoat:
- has pattern
- has colour
- may have different weights for different seasons
Suit jacket:
- like a sportcoat but with matching pants, ie can be worn as a sportcoat without the matching pants but this would just make the suit jacket fade faster than the pants
My jacket here has plastic buttons but without a pattern nor matching pants, this is closest to the definition of blazer.
The shirt I bought it with also came. Just a striped shirt for $20.
Both came with their original price tags, which was a nice touch because it reinforced the feeling that I got a great bargain here.
Yea it says sport coat but it's plain colour and has no pattern, so I still think it's a blazer.
So I've just tried using a low-end tablet. Wanted to see if my bro's Acer Iconia would work with our printer because it's been undetectable on our network.
Anyway, now I know how awesome high-end tablets are. It's impossible not to appreciate the smoothness of everything in the iPad.
The worst thing is when the apps are updating, the tablet is practically unusable because even the keyboard lags like crazy.
A little late but still awesome.
Some may say this is me thinking too much but that thing about the oven is kinda tasteless to me because it's so fucked up if you think about what the gas chambers really did. They put the old, the sick, the handicapped, the homosexuals, women, children and even babies in there and gassed them all.
There is one good thing though, relatively speaking, and that is the Nazis preferred carbon monoxide from engines as the gas, so they simply fell unconscious before dying. Easier to just collect the gas from sources that are readily available, like cars and tanks.
However, not all camps used that. In places like the Auschwitz, hydrogen cyanide was used. That was a lot more unpleasant, with violent convulsions and drooling taking place.
But I think the worst part was the anticipation.
Went to the second hearing test, this time about hearing in a noisy environment, and I'm perfectly fine. Guess it's all in my mind.
Ordered about $250 of groceries from Giant's new online system because the prices were the same as the one near my home, except with bulk discounts for a few items.
To make the $7 delivery fee worth it, I ordered a lot of heavy stuff. Too much, in fact.
For example, I ordered the rice in bulk, 25kg of it instead of 10kg that I usually buy when I have to carry it myself. Canned mushroom, 2.8kg, or 7 cans I believe. And 8.5kg of laundry powder.
Also didn't forget canned food, like tuna and sardines, so I ordered about 20 cans of those, mainly the house brand tuna. My bro likes it in water and, fortunately, the house brand only has two options: water and soy bean oil.
Then there's pasta. Spirals (fusili) run out often by the time I go, so this time I ordered like 20 packets of pasta, including that and spaghetti.
All those were either bulk or have tiny promotional discounts, so in the end I got about 10% off in total, over $260 inclusive of delivery fee, minus $25 discount.
Now I won't be going to shop for groceries except for fresh food because there is enough canned tuna and rice in my home for us to survive for a week or two.
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They have arrived! Interesting that they packed the frozen stuff in a styrofoam box with dry ice!
Not just bits of them but also one big giant bigger than my fist!
Played with one of the small pieces and used the rest as free ait-conditioning by placing them in front of my fan.
Turns out that when I leave dry ice alone, moisture in the air condenses on it and then freezes, forming snow all over it. Fun!
Also satisfied with the order despite a few issues. For one, they omitted the 2.8kg of canned mushroom. Probably unsufficient stock like the housebrand tuna-in-water.
Rounded the amount up to the next $10 and ended up tipping the delivery guy $8 even though he was late by 15 minutes. I think he earned it since I ordered 25kg of rice, 8.5kg of laundry powder and about 30 cans of fish, among other things.
The rice presents a slight problem though because it's not vacuum-sealed. I'll need to keep it in zip lock bags soon.
Went to Daiso the other day at Plaza Singapure since I was there for both work and to look at the cloths at Spotlight. Couldn't find woollen fabrics at Spotlight, no idea why.
But anyway, at Daiso I forgot that I needed bonito flakes :(
Got everything I need to make Japanese omelette including mirin but no bonito to make the stock. Dang.
I'll have to go back, probably to another store. I'm done with PS for now.
Funny thing is that I haven't been shopping there for so long I almost forgot everything there was priced at $2! When I found the first thing I wanted to buy, I looked everywhere on it for the price tag before I remembered it was Daiso.
But zaru soba is awesome. S$0.40 for the noodles, probably around $0.20 for each tablespoon of the noodle sauce I use per bundle of noodles, optional seaweed maybe $0.50. Cheap, easy and delicious!
Good thing I have that sieve that hawkers use for cooking their noodles. It's so easy to rinse the soba under the tap with some ice cubes after cooking!
Getting better at DotA 2 again. Tried a few matches with real people and didn't do too badly. Too many angry people though, so I don't really like it anymore. Maybe I should just stick with bots. People there are more relaxed.
Maybe I should try LoL again.
FNV seems to have a new fantastic mod, Project Brazil. Going to try out soon.
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